Bob Pompeani

Some very minor that have really hit with the Penguins and, I mean, number one among them.

Who knew of Dan Muse?

Exactly.

Remember when Dan Muse was hired?

Everybody's like, who the hell is Dan Muse?

And Bob, the other thing I wondered about is how is Dan Muse, the penalty killer, who works on the hard worker, who had to work real hard just to play in college, how is he going to be able to convince some of these superstars to play a system?

He did it very quickly, and he got whatever he said, meetings he had with Carlson, he got him to buy in, which probably the minute Sullivan left, he was probably ready to buy in.

He got Malkin to play wing.

He's done, and they play responsible hockey, and that's why, to your guy's point, if they don't make a move, I still think they can be a headache in the playoffs.

I mean, selfishly as a Pirates fan, I hate to see him playing for someone.

I hated it when they traded him.

But would I take who they put in his place, who they replaced him with, over McCutcheon?

Absolutely.

So I don't have an issue with them making the choices they made instead of Andrew McCutcheon.

I hope he goes down there and does great.

Yeah, me too.

I think it could have gotten really awkward, though, if they would have signed him with this current group because he'd be a situational player.

He'd be a platoon player.

He doesn't want to be that here.

I think he could be that somewhere else, but I think the stigma for him to be that type of player here, it's better if that's what he ends up being for the rest of his career, that it's not in Pittsburgh.